Started shooting in earnest back in March, mostly around the apartment and the park at the end of the block. My phone camera roll is mostly blurry dogs and bad light, so when I want to understand what a good photo actually looks like I scroll Unsplash and save the ones that make me slow down.
About a month ago I picked one photographer and committed to looking through their whole feed before bed. Not for a project, not for work, just to see what one consistent eye over hundreds of frames looks like. The handle I landed on was @charlottef847.
The light in those frames is what pulled me in first. Almost every shot has soft window light, the kind that comes through east-facing glass at seven in the morning. Coffee cups, linen sheets, a kid mid-step in a hallway, none of it dramatic, all of it quiet. The colour palette barely moves from photo to photo either. Cool, patient, a little washed-out, the way a kitchen reads at sunrise.
A month of this has changed how I think about my own shooting. Light is mostly about what you leave out. A personal palette matters more than variety across a hundred different subjects. I am still mostly taking blurry dogs. The ones from this past month are blurry dogs in morning light, which feels like real progress.
If you are learning photography the way I am, Charlotte's Unsplash portfolio is worth a slow scroll. It will not teach you settings. It might teach you what to point the camera at.